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Sultani - Murad III Aleppo, type 1
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1575 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Hammered gold reverse fully covered by a multi-line Arabic inscription in high-relief thuluth script, set within a beaded border matching the obverse. The legend, distributed across four or five lines filling the entire field, proclaims the imperial title 'Sultan of the Two Lands and Khagan of the Two Seas, the Sultan son of the Sultan,' a standard Ottoman honorific formula used on sultani gold coinage of the period. Individual letters display the characteristic sweeping calligraphic strokes and diacritical dots of Ottoman chancellery script. No figurative devices, symbols, or exergual elements are present, the design being entirely epigraphic in accordance with Islamic numismatic convention. |
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| Mintage | 982 (1575) - ٩٨٢ |
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Murad III ascended in 1574 following the death of Selim II, and the Aleppo mint — one of the empire's most productive provincial gold-striking facilities — wasted little time retooling for the new reign. The Syrian mints held particular strategic importance during this period, serving the empire's eastern trade routes and financing military operations against Safavid Persia. Pere's type 1 designation distinguishes the earlier tughra configuration from subsequent die revisions made within the same reign.